Kanye can be seen backing away from Nelson, who put his hands up for the crowds of people there to watch Kanye before getting dragged from the stage.

"Some people were saying Kanye shouldn't headline Glastonbury so I thought I'd give him a hand," Lee Nelson tweeted his 93,000 followers at 10.40pm on Saturday night.

The 38-year-old singer attempted to continue the track, Black Skinhead, before stopping and asking to start again.

In his first two songs, it was clear that Kanye was setting the agenda and not censoring his own lyrics by dropping the n-bomb, which was aired on the BBC.

At the festival, the sound has received some criticism, with many fans spotted leaving the Pyramid Stage area because of the audio quality.

The rapper, who performed many of his hits including Black Skinhead, N***** in Paris, Gold Digger, closed the set with The College Dropout hit All Falls Down after declaring he was the 'greatest living rockstar' in the world.

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As he started the performance of his hit Gold Digger, he said: "I'm gonna say this now because in 20 years or 30 years I might not get another chance, I'm gonna say it, you are watching the greatest living rock star on the planet."

Kanye West performing on The Pyramid Stage (Image: PA)

Whilst on stage, Kanye also paid tribute to his pregnant wife Kim Kardashian West, revealing she was the inspiration behind one of his love songs

The star performed mostly on his own as he rattled off some of his recent hits including Only One and FourFiveSeconds on a stripped back stage, complete with a ceiling of hundreds of lights.

It was reported earlier this week that bosses at the Beeb have been finalising contingency plans in case they can’t air a lot of his set from Saturday night’s Glastonbury headline slot because of bad language.

They want to avoid a repeat of ITV’s Brits disaster, which saw the channel mute the audio during his performance of All Day, due to repeated mentions of the “n” word.

A Beeb source says: “The set list can change at the last minute, so who knows what Kanye could say on stage?

“ There are contingency plans in place. A warning will be broadcast ahead of his set, advising viewers to expect bad language, but as he comes on at 10.15pm there’s hope it will be acceptable post-watershed.

The crowd watch Kanye West performing (and the invader) (Image: PA)

“Given his excessive swearing at the Brits, there will be a lot of nervy execs during his performance.